Bed-frame construction.



F. I. GOULD. BED FRAME CONSTRUCTION. APPLIOATIOIT FILED MAR. 4, 1910.

Patented Oct. 18,1910.

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CANADA.

BED-FRAME CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application. field March 4, 1910. Serial No. 547,321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK I. GOULD, of the town of Hailebury, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Frame Construction, of which .the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

This invention relates to improvements in bed f 'ame construction and more particularly to means for adjusting or stretching the spring fabric.

The main object of the invention is to provide means by which the end bars, to which the spring fabric is secured, may be adjusted longitudinally with respect to the bedstead, such means being simple, inexpensive, etlicient and easily attached to any frame of ordinary construction.

In the drawings which illustrate my invention Figure 1 is a plan view of a bed showing my adjustable attachment in operative position. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the adjusting device. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation showing a slightly modified form of the construction illustrated in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 4 designates the side rails and 5 the end rails of a bedframe, provided with a suitable spring fabricb. The spring fabric is secured at the top between a pair of bars 7, which are riveted or otherwise held so closely as to prevent any movement of the spring. Below the bar 7 I provide a series of mooring brackets 8, preferably of channel section,

which are riveted to said bars by rivets 9.

. A bracket 10 is attached to the end rail 5 at the head of the bed and consists of a strap 11 which embraces the end rail at the top and then extends horizontally forward a same by means of the bolt after the bracket has been placed in position. The brackets 10 are connected to the mooring brackets 8 by means of a bolt 18, provided with a round head 19. The belt 18 passes through an aperture 20 in the downwardly bent portion 12- of'the strap 11 and is threaded into apertures 21 in the mooring bracket 8. A square portion 22 is provided on the bolt adjacent. the aperture 21, and by means of a wrench the bolt may be turned, and the threaded portion will carry the mooring bracket 8 with the bar 7 toward or away from the head rail 5, as desired. The spring may thus be adjusted in a simple and rapid manner 7 In Fig. 3 I have shown a slightly modified form of construction in which the bracket member consists of a casting 23 having a recess 24 in one end thereof and an aperture 25 through which the bolt passes. Strap members 28 hinged at 27, are adapted to extend around the head rail to be locked in position on the casting by means of the bolt 15, as above described.

Any suitable number of adjusting devices may be used for spring beds of any width 'and it will be obvious that by means of this device the spring fabric may be tightened at will to prevent sagging after the spring has been in use.

Having thus described my invention, wha I claim is A device of the character described, comprising the combina'tion with a bed frame of a spring having end bars secured thereto, and a plurality of adjusting members connecting the spring and the head rail of the bed frame, said adjusting members consist ing of mooring members of channel section secured to the end bars of the spring. and hinged brackets connected to the end rail of the bed frame, and a threaded bolt adapted to turn freely within the hinged bracket and threaded into the mooring member, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses. FRANK l. GOULD. \V itnesses S'ruAirr R. W. ALLEN, E. B. MCKENZIE. 

